Long-Term Competitiveness Group

Our Long-Term Competitiveness Group (LTCG) is our senior member body responsible for ensuring that government and regulators develop and implement policies designed to ensure that the UK remains an internationally attractive and competitive place for financial and related professional services firms to invest and do business.

The group provides strategic oversight to our policy work, ensuring that long-term competitiveness issues for the industry are considered and addressed by policymakers as business adapts to technological, environmental, and social change. It is focused on influencing the future shape of the UK’s regulatory, legal, and tax regimes and the approach of its regulatory and supervisory authorities.

With the support of specialist policy committees, the LTCG supports TheCityUK in celebrating the strengths and success of our industry, while ensuring that the UK policy and regulatory landscape continues to evolve in a way which supports the industry’s continued growth and success.

The group is supported by several specialist committees:  

Our latest long-term competitiveness work:

Our submission to the Autumn Budget 2026

Read our submission to the government ahead of the 2026 Autumn Budget. In it we highlight policy areas where the Budget could deliver positive change for our industry and the wider economy.

Our response to the Department for Work and Pensions 'Value for Money Framework' consultation

TheCityUK summarises a response to the Department for Work and Pensions’ proposed Value for Money Framework for workplace pensions. It welcomes the shift towards assessing long-term value beyond costs alone, while urging regulators to ensure the framework is proportionate, aligned with existing regimes and capable of supporting better saver outcomes, investment and UK competitiveness.

Navigating change, driving growth: Annual report and accounts 2025-26

TheCityUK strengthened its role as the voice of UK-based financial and related professional services, driving policy engagement, research and international advocacy. In 2025-26 it expanded stakeholder reach, delivered strong member activity, and returned to profitability while maintaining financial resilience.

Our latest long-term competitiveness news:

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A roundup from our biggest party conference season yet

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Guest blog: Building the next generation of market infrastructure

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What makes a market ‘emerging’? Identifying strategically relevant financial services trade corridors

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International capital: what’s in an acronym?

Events:

TheCityUK National Conference 2026

Our National Conference 2026 will take place in Bristol on Thursday 19 November 2026 and will address how devolution can help unlock growth across the UK,

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Highlights from TheCityUK Annual Conference 2026

The Annual Conference 2026 took place on Thursday 18 June, bringing together senior leaders from across the financial and related professional services industry with political and regulatory stakeholders to explore themes around innovations in FinTech, the regulatory and taxation environment, and driving growth

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